Creator
Mary J. Arnold
Recipient
John Muir
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3must have birds to stuff for science you can imagine the consequence. I appealed to one of the professors and told him that they were calling murder, science, and that John Muir's hands were not stained with blood in studying bird life, The number killed for the school probably runs into the hundreds and the students have been instructed in lessons of cruelty while the institution boasts of the number of its corpses, There will always be one lone mourner in their funeral train. A bird to me is one of God's most beautiful thoughts made manifest in the flesh and I would not give the trilling melody in one bird's throat, for all the stuffed birds with which pedants are deceiving their unthinking disciples. Are birds so destructive in orchards that02961
Location
Lakeport, Calif.
Date Original
1902 Mar 9
Source
Original letter dimensions: 25.5 x 20.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir12_0251-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 12, Image 0251
Copyright Status
Copyright status unknown
Copyright Statement
Some letters written to John Muir may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Owning Institution
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Page Number
Page 3
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
